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by jawns 3y ago
I would be surprised if there were a significant number of couples who go through this preparation program and then say, "Welp, guess that won't work. Nice to have known you!" But there are probably an appreciable number of
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by jawns 3y ago
I know that a lot of the debate around this topic has to do with premarital cohabitation or number of past partners, but this study points out that there's another important factor in successful marriages: premarital preparation. I&#x2
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by jawns 3y ago
It's about time! I have been a curmudgeon about this ever since I saw my first "To the left, to the left / Passing only in the lane to the left." Not only are these signs not that funny, but they're likely to be co
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No joke: Feds are banning humorous electronic messages on highways(nbcnews.com)
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by jawns 3y ago
A while back, I tried to create a T-shirt using a version of the NASA logo, and it got shot down by NASA because it violated their restrictive licensing terms: https://shaungallagher.pressbin.com/blog/nasa-vsvn.html I
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The Rabbit R1 is an AI-powered gadget that can use your apps for you(theverge.com)
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Men are hitting on my scheduling bot because it has a woman's name(askamanager.org)
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Chesterton's Fence, Bayes' theorem, and the decay of tradition(shaungallagher.pressbin.com)
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Radio and podcast company Audacy files for bankruptcy(thehill.com)
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North Korea Was Responsible for over $600M in Crypto Thefts Last Year(coindesk.com)
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by jawns 3y ago
I got a DirecTV subsidiary to install a powerful OTA antenna on our house. Small and sleek. We are about 40 miles from the metro area where the signals are broadcast, but we get a pretty strong signal. Haven't paid a penny in years, ap
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by jawns 3y ago
I am not a smoker, but I recently read through Allan Carr's "Easy Way to Quit Smoking Without Willpower" book. (There is a similar book out there called the Easy Peasy Way to Quit Porn, for those who are struggling with that.
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by jawns 3y ago
Even though no religion owns the moon, there are laws in many places about the disposal of human remains, even on public lands, so I don't see why there couldn't be similar international regulations about the disposal of human rem
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Intel and DigitalBridge Launch Articul8, an Enterprise Generative AI Company(intc.com)
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by jawns 3y ago
"No known bugs" is not the brag that they think it is. It's like someone peddling a medication and saying, "No known side effects."
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by jawns 3y ago
> there’s no reason why you wouldn’t be able to place drugs and guns in the trunk of the car and send it along its way to the buyer’s location Right, but then the LEO needs to establish probable cause to search the vehicle. They can&#x2
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by jawns 3y ago
The cynic in me thinks that the PD is willing to be so lax for moving violations for self-driving cars because they're not actually concerned about the moving violation. LEOs view the initial offense as a lead that gives them probable
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Apple Just Broke a Tradition It Held for 12 Years(macrumors.com)
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Fox News Dominates Ratings in 2023, as Cable News Suffers Viewership Declines(mediaite.com)
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Smartphone makers bet on foldables to revive lackluster market(ft.com)
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Nikon, Sony and Canon fight AI fakes with new camera tech(asia.nikkei.com)
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by jawns 3y ago
I am an author of four nonfiction books, so I have a definite stake in this. Take that for what it's worth. For each of my books, I had to invest a substantial amount of time to do research, plus the writing and editing itself, plus e
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My kid sounds like ChatGPT, and soon yours might, too(shaungallagher.pressbin.com)
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As a writer who has had to deal with suggested changes by editors extensively, I would say that it is weighted toward the user experience of the _reader_, not the user experience of the person who has to actually accept or reject the change
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What drives a sloth's ritualistic trek to poop?(smithsonianmag.com)
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Works on Screen(joshuajenkins.com)
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Memcached vs. Redis – More Different Than You Would Expect (2021)(engineering.kablamo.com.au)
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by jawns 3y ago
There was a recent video on Audit the Audit, which examines legal issues related to police interactions, in which a woman demonstrates clanging: https://youtu.be/bXOR7krog1U?si=kZDr9Y63018ltU22 As you may observe, the woman
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by jawns 3y ago
I understand that this is more of a proof of concept than a bridge built to solve a practical problem ... but it feels like this structure was engineered NOT to solve a problem. Normally bridges allow you to cross over something that you co
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by jawns 3y ago
> Modern academics have a perfectly reasonable explanation for all of this. It's only perfectly reasonable if you aren't familiar with the broader context. Breaking the levirate marriage custom was not in itself considered an a

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